The Black Regiment

The Black Regiment

Location

The Occult Crescent: South Horn (X:30.5, Y:28.6)

Duration

20 min

Knowledge

 200-23,400

Phantom EXP

 480

Tomestones

 20  10

Boss

Black Star

Enemies

Black Chocobo

Spawn Mob

Automatic

Patch

7.25

Links

GT TC

“

While the cause which has united the black chocobos of the Occult Crescent remains a mystery, the destruction left in their wake is plain to see. This uprising must be quelled or else the entire island might be swallowed in a sea of dark feathers.

— In-game description

The Black Regiment is a Critical Encounter spawned in The Occult Crescent: South Horn.

Rewards

• 200 Enlightenment Silver Piece
• 0-1   Orpiment Demiatma
• 0-1   Ranger's Soul Shard
• 0-1   Notes on Black Chocobos

Guide

The arena is surrounded by an AoE that will instantly kill anyone who steps in it.

This encounter consists of battles against three waves of Black Chocobos with the Black Star boss at the end.

• 15 black chocobos will be targetable at the start. Defeat them with AoEs. They do not have any mechanics except for auto-attacks.
• After they are defeated, 12 untargetable chocobos (three at each wall forming four groups) will spawn and use late telegraphed line AoEs (Chocobo Beak) in front of them, leaving four square safe areas.
• Another wave of 10 targetable black chocobos will spawn and must be defeated.
• After they are defeated, eight untargetable flying black chocobos will appear, while a third wave of 10 targetable black chocobos appears. The flying chocobos will move to certain areas and use a late telegraphed circle AoE (Chocobo Maelfeather) directly underneath them, which will be indicated by the thin green lines. They will the move to a different location and repeat this attack until the wave is defeated.
• The Black Star boss will then spawn, who only has a handful of mechanics:
  • Choco Windstorm: A large, late telegraphed point-blank AoE.
  • Choco Cyclone: A late telegraphed donut AoE.
  • Choco Windstorm + Choco Beak: 12 untargetable chocobos will appear on adjacent walls, forming four groups with gaps in between, while the boss casts Choco Windstorm. To dodge, identify a region at a wall that is not in line with any of the adds.
  • Choco Cyclone + Maelfeather: A combination of the donut AoE from the boss plus the circle AoEs from the flying adds. There will always be two pseudo-triangular safe spots opposite each other within the donut, at the intercardinals.
  • Choco Slaughter: Four "exaflare" AoE telegraphs will originate from the boss, followed by four more offset from the first et, which can be dodged by waiting for two pulses of the first set then moving in where they spawned to dodge the second set. When these are going off, the boss will cast Choco Doublades, spawning four conal AoE telegraphs at the cardinals or intercardinals, followed by four more in the previously empty areas. This is immediately followed by Choco Beak from wall adds that newly appear and small baited circle AoE telegraphs (Choco Aero II) at random players' locations.

Dialogue

Black Chocobo: Kweh!
Black Chocobo: Kwe-kweh!
Black Star: Kweh! Kweeeh!